Chapter 455 Sanduo

"Since Uncle Rong has the idea of ​​building a port, have you chosen to build a port in his hometown?" Yang Xing first pointed to Rong Xinyou's hometown near Wenzhou, Zhejiang on the map and asked him. According to his idea, since Rong Mingyou had already planned to build a port, it is natural to choose to build a port at his doorstep. Unexpectedly, Rong Mingyou shook his head after hearing this and said, "I have conducted an inspection in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, but I have not found a suitable deep-water port wharf."

"Uncle Rong means that Zhejiang's ports do not meet the standards?" Yang Xing was a little surprised when he heard this. You should know that in recent years of reform, coastal provinces have always been the first in the trend, and the maturity of infrastructure construction is far above the mainland provinces. As a major province in the top five output value in the country, Zhejiang is the smallest in the country, but the length of the coastline in the province is the first in the country. Especially the Ningbo Port in the province ranks second in the country, and other ports such as Zhoushan and Wenzhou are also famous ports in the country. In addition, there are many other small ports along the coastline. The port throughput in the province ranks first in the country every year. Such conditions have not been able to catch the eye of Rong Mingyou, which surprised Yang Xing.

Although Yang Xing owns a logistics company like Xinghai Trading Company, he is not an omniscient and omnipotent genius after all, and does not know much about the conditions for building a port. He listened to Rong Mingyou's words, so he had a better choice, so he acted as an insincere and listened to Rong Mingyou's explanation of the truth.

"You see, a necessary condition for the best port in the world is that the waters must be deep enough and the sea surface is wide. The mainstream of modern ship transportation is to develop towards super-large ships. There are many 100,000-ton cargo ships. They load cargo at one time, saving costs. However, they are also big guys with very deep draft and huge volume. If the waterway is narrow and the water level at the port is too shallow, it will be difficult to turn around. If the intermediate ships are also required to transfer, it will completely lose the meaning of the super-large cargo ship entering the port. Most of this country's many docks that claim to be 10,000 tons are not good. This is determined by the natural environment and cannot be compensated for by manpower for the time being."

"And building a port requires a long-term strategic vision. The port construction time may span more than ten years. Before building the port, you must consider the future port throughput needs and leave enough room. Otherwise, even if you barely meet the requirements, you will lose the potential for future port expansion and upgrading, so the natural conditions of the port must be looked at higher levels." When talking about the construction of the port, Rong Mingyou immediately recovered from the depression just now and talked about his thoughts with a slight look.

"At present, among the ports along Zhejiang Province, only Ningbo Beilun Port has better basic conditions, but you also know that it is the center of the entire Zhejiang overseas trade, and all the good port areas have been occupied by the boss of the country. Wenzhou Port near my hometown is even more overwhelmed by the increasing number of ships entering the port every day, and clamoring all day long that it must develop the nearby Qili Port in Yueqing to relieve the pressure. I ran over there several times. Although it is said to be a national key construction project, the surrounding conditions are far inferior. The 100,000-ton giant ship is anchored to the sky. As for other Zhejiang ports, I don't even look down on it." Rong Mingyou obviously conducted a sufficient preliminary investigation and commented on the Zhejiang coast port on the map, which also made Yang Xing and Yang Rongguang listened with relish. Unexpectedly, there was such a great question in the site selection of the port alone.

"International good ports require deep water, wide bays, small mouth, large belly, large water area, wide water area, and less affected by natural disasters such as typhoons and tsunamis. The reason why the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands can hold the throne of the world's number one port for a long time is inseparable from its water area of ​​more than 10 meters and its operating area of ​​20 square meters. In contrast, Ningbo Beilun Port, which claims to be the first port opening condition in China, has a water area of ​​more than 10 meters, which is only about 7 square kilometers. Therefore, in order to reduce the surrounding natural environment of Shanghai Port, the number one port in China, is only about 7 square kilometers.

The country has restricted the development of ports. It is better to spend huge amounts of money to build a cross-sea bridge to connect the Yangshan Islands, 32 kilometers away from the coastline, with the downtown area of ​​Shanghai. In order to build the Yangshan Port on it, I also took a fancy to the huge advantage of the water depth of more than 15 meters and the water area of ​​more than 30 square kilometers near Yangshan Port." Rong Mingyou's words finally made Yang Xing have a clear understanding of the port site selection. It seems that he was just preparing to invest at the beginning, and he felt that the idea of ​​choosing where to build a port was too hasty.

After analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the coast of Zhejiang Province, Rong Mingyou moved his finger along the coastline to Haixi Province, which is across the sea from Taiwan, and pointed to one of the locations and said: "I am old and I am recently preparing to hand over the group's main business to the people and consider resigning. But before retreating, I want to fulfill my wish. I want to see a big harbor of mine on the beach before death. There are steel plants, chemical plants, and power plants. At that time, this port will be my place to retire. That will be the pinnacle of my life. Will Mr. Yang be willing to give me this opportunity?" He said very solemnly, and the desire in his eyes moved Yang Xing. Rong Mingyou said this obviously because he recognized Yang Xing, a partner, and he had spent the rest of his life on this port.

Yang Xing did not answer immediately, and carefully looked at the location Rong Mingyou pointed at. It was a small seaside town not far from Haicheng, the capital of Haixi Province. There was a small and almost unsightly introduction on it - Ninghai Sanduao.

"This is the best port construction location I discovered after traveling all over the domestic coastline. Look, China's long coastline of 18,400 kilometers is also the golden coastline where economically developed regions gather. It is like a big bow shooting arrows of wealth deep into the ocean. The midpoint of this big bow, that is, the northern part of Haixi Province, is basically blank, and there is no decent large port. As a province with coastline resources second only to Zhejiang, Haixi Province, except for the provincial capital Haicheng and Xiamen, Meizhou Bay and other slightly-looking big ports, the throughput of a province's port is not as high as that of Ningbo Port in Zhejiang. This is a value depression that has not been discovered on the China coastline, full of opportunities."

Rong Mingyou said while taking out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Yang Xing. Obviously he was prepared for it. Yang Xing opened the document and said to himself that he was thinking about a passage at the beginning of the report: "Sanduao is a world-famous natural port, with a world-class comprehensive index of port opening conditions. First of all, from the location conditions, Sanduao is located in the middle of China's north-south coastline, and is located between two large open ports of Haicheng Port and Beilun Port. It is 390 nautical miles north of Shanghai; 561 nautical miles south of Guangzhou; 145 nautical miles east of Keelung Port in Taiwan. It is a must-pass route for China's north-south sea transportation and many international routes. It is moderately distanced from Southeast Asian countries, and is very close to Hong Kong and Macao, and is even separated from Taiwan opposite. Moreover, Sanduao is also one of the closest outlets in central inland provinces such as Jiangxi, Hunan, Anhui, and Hubei."

"Secondly, from the natural conditions, the Sanduao estuary is lined with islands such as green mountains, Douhu, and Jigong, intersected with the coastal mountains and headlands, becoming a natural barrier, blocking the strong winds and waves from the Pacific Ocean. The Sansha Bay surrounded by the islands has an area of ​​714 square kilometers of water, and the water depth of more than 10 meters is 173 square kilometers, which is 26 times that of Ningbo Beilun Port and 8 times that of Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands! You can sail at any time at any tide level at any time

300,000-ton ships can be transported and moored; the deep-water shoreline is 80 kilometers long, which is five times that of Beilun Port. It can build 112 berths of 10,000-ton to 200,000-ton berths, 3 berths of 500,000-ton berths, with a water depth of 35-125 meters. The 500,000-ton ships can enter the port all day long. It is the most ideal port site for building large-scale deep-water berths in China. The port has a small terrain and large belly, and has good wind shelter conditions, which is in line with the trend of the world's large-scale shipping ships and deep-watering waterways."

"Third, from the perspective of supporting resource conditions, Sanduao has a well-conditioned development hinterland along the Lingang coast and rich non-metallic ores, marine fisheries, freshwater, hydropower and tourism resources. The theoretical hydropower reserves are 2.25 million kilowatts, small and medium-sized hydropower stations and installed capacity are nearly 2 million kilowatts. In particular, Linhai has a large number of undeveloped shallow tidal flats, which can provide a wide land space for large port industrial projects and port construction land."

After reading the document, Yang Xing was indeed very moved. If Rong Mingyou's report was not very well-behaved, the Sanduao port chosen by Rong Mingyou did have extraordinary potential. After twenty years of reform, coastal provinces have always been at the vanguard of reform. Our mainland country, which has always liked to stay in the country, has discovered the charm of the ocean for the first time. Coastal reform and opening up has entered a mature stage, and the coastal location has become increasingly obvious.

As the strength of coastal provinces has greatly increased, more and more knowledgeable people in these provinces have begun to pay attention to the potential of scarce resources such as coastlines. Intellectual businessmen have begun to select locations and enclose land on the coast, in order to one day let the coastal land resources in their hands rise and appreciate greatly with the economic development.

Many wealthy businessmen in Zhejiang invested huge investments in building docks at seaside shipyards, because they were attracted by the wealth prospects of the Gold Coast. If the resources of Zhejiang coastal ports as Rong Mingyou mentioned have been basically miscellaneous, it would be a good idea to choose this place not far from Wenzhou to build a new port from Zhejiang. What's more, the geographical location and port construction conditions mentioned in the report are so superior?

Of course, Yang Xing's business is so big that it is far from being able to make a decision in just a few words. He made an appointment with Rong Mingyou to visit Sanduao in person. After all, if they really decide to choose a site to build a port there, they also need to introduce large steel, petrochemical, power plants and other projects. Any project involves investments of tens of billions of yuan, and it is estimated that at least a total investment of nearly 100 billion yuan is required. This is a major issue that concerns the life and death of the company for both Zhongxing International and Zhongchang Group, and requires a very cautious attitude.
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